The latest State of the Internet report from CDN leader Akamai has revealed that the globe’s networks are increasingly capable of supporting Ultra HD services.
Providing insight into key global statistics such as connection speeds, broadband adoption metrics, notable Internet disruptions, IPv4 exhaustion and IPv6 implementation, the report found that in the third quarter of 2015, global average connection speeds increased slightly (0.2%) to 5.1Mbps from the second quarter, accounting for a 14% increase year-over-year.
After a 12% quarterly increase in the second quarter, the global average peak connection speed declined a slight 0.9% to 32.2Mbps in the third quarter. This means a 30% year-over-year growth. South Korea had the top average connection speed at 20.5Mbps.
Globally, 5.2% of unique IP addresses connected to Akamai at average speeds of at least 25Mbps, a 6.3% increase over the previous quarter.
Year-over-year, global 25Mbps adoption increased by 15%, in contrast to the 0.5% yearly decrease seen in the second quarter. While in virtually all major countries there was widespread coverage of networks capable of supporting standard-definition and HDTV services, Akamai also found that 15%% of the unique global IP addresses connected to Akamai at average 4K-ready connection speeds of 15Mbps or above, up 5.3% from the second quarter. Year-over-year, the global 15Mbps adoption rate grew 21% with seven of the top ten countries/regions seeing gains ranging from 8.9% in Latvia (31% adoption) to 73% in Norway (37%).
“While we did observe an increase in the number of unique IPv4 addresses connecting to Akamai, the third quarter of 2015 saw the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for North America completely exhaust its available inventory of IPv4 address space,” noted David Belson, editor of the State of the Internet Report. “The continued depletion of IPv4 space, in both North America and around the world, should further spur organizations to expand or accelerate their own IPv6 adoption, particularly as the cost of obtaining IPv4 address space may rise as scarcity increases.”
Source: http://www.rapidtvnews.com/2015121741046/global-4ktv-readniess-accelerates.html#axzz3v0n19aKH